Associate Professor, Statistician, Co-founder Farm To Fork, GuelphHacks, and the Improve Life Challenge, Co-creator of the ICON Transdisciplinary Classroom and the Gryphons Care Initiative, former Director of PSEER.

Attention all first-year students. If you’ve got a drive to change the status quo, to improve life for those in our community and beyond, to solve broad social challenges that span multiple disciplines, or to build your communication, leadership, and teamwork skills, then join me on September 5 at 1:30pm for the special lecture Change Makers, Leaders, and Innovators – Oh My!

Be prepared to take part in this active classroom! You won’t just be sitting around listening to me talk. You will literally move around as we talk about huge challenges, and how attitudes like this:

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Acknowledgement

Some of the research and work presented here takes place in the ancestral and continued homelands of the original peoples of Labrador: the Inuit of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit of NunatuKavut, the Innu of Nitassinan, and their ancestors. Some of our work also takes place on the ancestral lands of the Katzie, and Lummi people. Finally, we acknowledge that the University of Guelph resides in the ancestral and treaty lands of the Attawandaron people and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and we recognize and honour our Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Métis neighbours.